SPEAKING EVENTS
Understanding and Responding to Emotions
(Educators Professional Development Course)
Online @ Understanding and Responding to Emotions - Montessori Teachers College - Training
This course aims to equip educators to support emotional regulation as normal development. Unregulated behaviour causes teacher concern and even frustration. Understanding where these behaviours originate and how to best respond to them can help both the child and the educator. As the child learns to understand and express their emotions their confidence and self-esteem grows.
Considerable research has been done on the importance of emotional intelligence for overall well-being at every age. This workshop addresses the research and confirms how it aligns with Montessori principles and best practices.
Parents need to know what skills are acquired in a Montessori program. Examples of Executive Functions (working memory, mental flexibility, and inhibitory control) helped explain how independence, self-motivation, responsibility, compassion, empathy, etc. developed over the years.
Let’s Talk about Re-enrolment
(CCMA: School Leader Workshop)
An insightful exploration of ideas for boosting re-enrolment and retention rates within your school. Sharing strategies and resources to encourage your students to return year after year and giving reasons to share with your parent community until students complete the highest level your school offers.
Mentoring Your Staff
In-School Consultation: Westoak Campus
In-School Consultation: Tomken Campus
In-School Consultation: Millcreek Campus
What is the difference between a leader and a mentor? How can you as administrators mentor your staff so they are the best they can be? Reflective practice includes observing, reflecting, discussing, planning, and implementing. Role-playing provided correct language and practice when speaking with your staff.
Based on the Montessori Triad, the relationships between the child, the prepared adult, and the prepared environment are the focus of this presentation. How the adults in the community work together is essential for success.
Essential elements of Montessori pedagogy were presented as preparation for the implementation of Godly Play. This program brings a creative and innovative approach to Christian formation and spiritual guidance based on Montessori principles.
Preparing the Environment for a Great School Year
Supporting the Casa Community
Working Together in the Toddler Community
(Educator Workshops)
A series of 3 workshops provided an understanding of the prepared environment and the adults who work together. These workshops explained the important role of the supporting educator within the classroom and the reasons why Montessori educators do what they do.
TWO PART SERIES EXCLUSIVE FOR CCMA MEMBER SCHOOLS
Bringing purpose and joy to your school community as you prepare for the new school year
In the rhythm of a school year, June is a time for reflecting on the accomplishments, learnings and trials of the past year and preparing for the next steps. Montessori Partners guide conversations to inspire participants to begin preparations aimed at bringing joy and purpose to the community for the next school year.
Educators Workshop
Online @ www.ccma.ca
What did we learn and where do we go from here? Montessori Partners will focus on where the child is now and how we prepare our environment for learners at every age to thrive.
School Leader Workshop
Online @ www.ccma.ca
Deepening insights and understanding of the past year to begin planning for the next Montessori Partners will focus on the needs of educators and setting them up for a successful and healthy start to the school year.
THREE PART SERIES EXCLUSIVE FOR CCMA MEMBER SCHOOLS
Reconnecting With Your Sense of Joy and Purpose as a Montessori School Leader
The presentations address the critical role of the school leader focusing on Dr. Montessori’s triad expressing the relationship between Educator/Parent/Child. Montessori Partners shared recent findings about the impact of the physical, social, and emotional environments and how this validates and confirms best practices in a Montessori context.
The Emerging Child
Online @ www.ccma.ca
Montessori Partners designed this session to address school leaders' and educators' concerns related to the so-called “COVID Gap”. Rather than seeing this as a deficit, we propose that a new child has emerged. How do we, as educators, use best practices in Montessori pedagogy as we adapt our strategies and prepare the environment to suit this new child?
Connecting With Families
Online @ www.ccma.ca
Montessori Partners address the ever-changing and complex relationship with parents. Leaders require the mental capacity to handle stressful, demanding, and at times upsetting circumstances. Montessori Partners offer various tools to build on your capabilities and help manage stress.
The Role of School Leaders
Online @ www.ccma.ca
The role of the school leader during this period of adaptation and change is discussed and paired with leadership strategies that are conducive to being effective and confident during these demanding times. Additionally, discussions also explore the important question: Who is looking after the wellness of people in leadership roles?
21st Century Skills: What are they and Why do they matter?
(Parent Presentation)
Curlew Montessori School
Have you ever wondered how well a Montessori education prepares young people for the challenges and opportunities ahead?
We can never know what the world our youth will face will be like. What we do know is that fostering critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication is essential preparation for life in the 21st Century.
This presentation addresses how a Montessori education provides rich and meaningful learning experiences through which children construct themselves as adaptable, resilient, empathetic, intelligent, problem solvers people who will be are well prepared to contribute to their society and their world.
The aim of the Protective Safety Program is to enable children to feel and be safe in any situation. The two key underlying principles of the program are that everyone has the right to feel safe all of the time and that there is nothing so awful that you cannot tell anyone about it.
Throughout this session, parents and educators learn how to help young people recognize the signals their body presents when they are not safe, such as heart flutter, sweaty hands, or clenched teeth. This is followed by understanding how to give young people the tools to best respond in any given situation. The positive outcome lies in promoting young people’s self-empowerment, enhanced self-confidence, and overall safety.